I had a discussion with a colleague recently about the lottery. We posed this question: why not instead of a large jackpot with 1-5 winners, you have smaller ja

I had a discussion with a colleague recently about the lottery. We posed this question: why not instead of a large jackpot with 1-5 winners, you have smaller jackpots with many winners of say, 100k? Imagine instead of one person winning a 600m jackpot, 6000 people win 100k? 100k isn’t a particularly life changing amount of money but it could help dissuade frivolous spending and make good financial decisions. 100k can help pay off debts, pay off that car, put some in savings, etc for many people. Just a thought.